A coal mine was the first to wreck the land ... Letcher County was 1 of 13 counties ravaged by catastrophic flooding in 2022, ...

Decades ago, a cheap form of extraction called mountaintop removal coal mining blew up summits and ... to be leveled and replanted, reclaimed strip mines no longer resemble mountains.

Alberta’s modernized coal rules will permit strip mining and other surface ... that new proposals will need to be underground mines or use mining technologies to minimize overburden and prevent ...

A group of Canton homeowners is complaining about what it calls a strip mine operation along Route ... to Canton’s zoning department that the mining operation seems to be operating without ...

On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan joined a small gathering at the foot of a reclaimed strip mine to celebrate a homecoming. “It’s a return of an ...

But U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration records show Wolverine Fuels LLC, a coal mining company with headquarters in Sandy that owns the mine, reopened Fossil Rock in September.

The Elkview coal mine across the border in BC could be a ... water contamination, strip mining, landscape destruction and toxic selenium pollution. “I am really angry and feel betrayed by ...